Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
How Amy works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMSW, LICSW
- Licensed in
- Michigan, Washington
- Years in practice
- 14
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Amy
Amy Klein is a licensed clinical social worker who blends mindful practice with practical therapy. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered work to help people manage strong emotions and everyday stress. Amy has 14 years of clinical experience and offers sessions in English for clients in Michigan and beyond.
She began her social work career soon after high school and earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Wayne State University.
Background and approach
After serving with the Peace Corps in Jamaica and completing a Master of Social Work at Western Michigan University she has worked in diverse settings, including in-home family programs, a Native tribe, a medical clinic, rural schools, and a medium-security prison. Amy combines practical tools with reflective work.
She brings mindfulness, yoga, and storytelling into sessions alongside evidence-informed techniques like CBT and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Sessions focus on clear skills people can try between meetings, and simple ways to notice and change patterns that cause pain. Many people come to her for anger, anxiety, depression, or struggles with addiction and grief.
She also helps with parenting stress, career transitions, body image, ADHD, and relationship concerns that affect individuals. Amy describes herself as an empath and aims to offer steady presence and unconditional positive regard in sessions. Outside of clinical work she teaches yoga, practices reiki, and follows Native Tradition.
She lives near Lake Michigan and brings both life experience and clinical knowledge to help clients find a clearer path forward.
What Amy works with
Everything Amy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Amy's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amy lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches for emotion and behavior work online
Amy often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their values and take small actions toward them. ACT involves learning to accept difficult feelings while committing to meaningful steps, which can be useful for anger, anxiety, and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns and try practical experiments. CBT emphasizes skills such as tracking thoughts, testing beliefs, and changing behaviors to reduce distress and improve coping for depression, anxiety, and addiction concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Amy will work together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration can mean blending mindfulness, ACT, and CBT tools so therapy fits how someone lives and learns.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, travel, or busy family schedules.
Questions people ask about Amy
What concerns does Amy commonly address?
Amy works with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, addictions, and other life changes. She also helps with parenting strain, career transitions, body image, ADHD, and intimacy-related questions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach mixes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered methods with mindfulness. Sessions focus on practical skills, self-awareness, and noticing unhelpful patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 14 years of clinical experience and a long history in social work that predates her MSW. Her background includes work in schools, clinics, tribal settings, and correctional environments.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She holds the credentials LMSW and LICSW and practices from Michigan. The profile lists MI LMSW and WA LICSW LW as credential details.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she offer online?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.